On Thursday 25 November 2004 08:51, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Python is definitely nifty. I use it often, and it is the easiest computer language that I've ever learned (and I've learned a few).
Yes, I quite like Python so far. I decided to learn and use it Yesterday to write a script that needs to run on linux and windoze. The language itself is relatively straightforward to pick compared to perl or C++ for example but I'm not convinced that it's a great deal simpler than Java.
Actually, python may possibly be more complicated than Java. But Java has a higher entry barrier for a computer language newbie. Just compare a "hello world" program. In Java, you have introduce concepts for this simple program: publics, statics, voids, System.outs, a class etc. In python, you just have: print "hello world"
The meta-programming and introspection facilities in Python look interesting, but I haven't had time to play with any of that yet.
They are good, and a great deal easier to use than Java's reflection API. But that is typical of a scripting language. Just today I am writing python code that is made incredibly simpler by being able to execute a string as python code.
Cheers, Carl
